$ 419,007,198
1992--CRBL Champions
1993--CRBL Champions
1994--CRBL Champions
1995--NRBL Champions
2000--Yahoo! Public League
2005--Richie Ashburn League
Stadium: Ashburn Field at Maverick Park
Opened: Originally opened 1992; remodeled 2005
Capacity: 45,000
Team Colors: Royal Blue and Kelly Green
Retired Numbers: none
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Out of all the successful franchises operated by GRK Sports, none has been as successful as the Northampton Mavericks, who have won 6 league championships.
The Mavericks were founded in August 1991, as a charter member of the CRBL. In that shortened first season, the Mavs finished in second place, only 23 points away from a championship. But in their first draft, they started putting together the pieces of a dynasty. Among the players selected in that inaugural draft were Tom Glavine, Len Dykstra, Craig Biggio, and Mitch Williams.
The dynasty took hold in 1992. After adding such players as Andy Van Slyke, Jay Bell, Fred McGriff, Dave Hollins, Ivan Rodriguez, Jeff Bagwell and Chuck Knoblauch to the core of their team from the 1991 draft, they went out on May 1, the first day to sign free agents, and added P Greg Maddux and Jack McDowell to their pitching staff. Maddux, "Black Jack", and Tom Glavine would form the core of a pitching staff that would dominate throughout the early-mid 1990s. The Mavs went on to dominate the CRBL that season, going wire-to-wire in the points championship (except for one week in April), and they went 71-29 in head-to-head play in the regular season, then swept 2 playoff series.
Despite losing players such as Bagwell, Matt Williams, Steve Finley, Charles Nagy, and Curt Schilling in the expansion draft after the 1992 season, the Mavs came back just as strong in 1993, winning their second straight championship. In the 1994 draft, the Mavs added a young second baseman named Jeff Kent, who along with Ivan Rodriguez, remains with the team today and is a link to their past.
Big changes took place in 1994 as the CRBL folded on May 2. At the time it folded, the Mavericks were in second place, 63 points behind the first-place Cyclones. The league was reorganized within a few weeks and began play as the NRBL. The name change didn't matter, as the Mavericks went on to win their third consecutive title in the strike-shortened season. The dynasty kept rolling as in 1995 the Mavs won their fourth straight championship. It appeared that as long as there was a league to play in, the Mavericks would win it.
After 1995, the NRBL folded. The Mavericks bounced around in several Yahoo! public leagues in the late 1990s-early 2000s, some seasons not even fielding a team. They won their fifth championship in a Yahoo! league in 2000, then didn't field a team again until 2003, finishing 10th in a 12-team league. They improved to a fifth-place finish in 2004, then joined the Richie Ashburn League when it formed in early 2005. The Mavericks ran away from the rest of the league during the regular season, then battled Boston in a back-and-forth championship series before ultimeately winning the 6th championship in franchise history. With a team built around a core consisting of players such as Derrek Lee, Chase Utley, and Alex Rodriguez, and with pitchers such as Johan Santana, Mark Mulder, Rich Harden, and Roy Halladay continuing the tradition started by pitchers like Maddux and Glavine, the Mavericks should continue to contend for years to come.
The Mavericks' stadium originally opened in April 1992 as Maverick Park. After a $300 million overhaul, the stadium re-opened in April 2005 as Ashburn Field at Maverick Park. Named for the former Philadelphia Phillie Hall of Famer, the Mavericks chose to honor Whitey this way after the Phillies didn't name their new stadium after him. All Mavericks home games are played during the day, with the exception of a few Friday night games. Ashburn Field at Maverick Park is a state-of-the-art ballpark that seats 45,000, and while much changed with the remodel, it is still the same field where the Northampton Mavericks dynasty was born.
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